WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 If I say the word Apple, you say the word Macintosh. 00:06.000 --> 00:09.000 But if I played the same game just a few years ago and said Apple, 00:09.000 --> 00:14.000 you would probably say 2 or 2E or 2+, for it was the Apple II that started this company. 00:14.000 --> 00:17.000 But with the recent success of the Macintosh and the Mac II in particular, 00:17.000 --> 00:21.000 there have been rumors that the old Apple II was headed for the orphanage. 00:21.000 --> 00:25.000 Not so, for there's a new Apple IIc and a new Apple IIgs. 00:25.000 --> 00:31.000 Today we take a look at the new generation of Apple II computers on this edition of the Computer Chronicles. 00:31.000 --> 00:52.000 ♪♪ 00:52.000 --> 00:56.000 The Computer Chronicles is made possible in part by McGraw-Hill, 00:56.000 --> 01:02.000 publishers of Byte Magazine, and Bix, the Byte Information Exchange. 01:02.000 --> 01:07.000 In print and online, Byte and Bix serve computer professionals worldwide 01:07.000 --> 01:12.000 with detailed information on new hardware, software, and technologies. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 ♪♪ 01:16.000 --> 01:19.000 Welcome to the Computer Chronicles. I'm Stuart Shiffey. 01:19.000 --> 01:21.000 And this is Gary Kildall. 01:21.000 --> 01:25.000 Gary, what I've got over here in this little briefcase is an original Apple I computer. 01:25.000 --> 01:29.000 Before they thought about cases for computers, this guy put it into his briefcase. 01:29.000 --> 01:32.000 This is literally a museum piece, but it's only about 10 years old. 01:32.000 --> 01:36.000 And of course it represents state-of-the-art technology at the time for personal computers. 01:36.000 --> 01:39.000 Knowing what we know about technology and PCs today, 01:39.000 --> 01:43.000 what is the point in coming out with a new 8-bit computer like the 2C Plus? 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 Well, Stuart, it's important to understand what the Apple really, where it came from. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 Steve Wozniak is the guy that engineered this thing, 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 and he was a video person as well as a computer person. 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 He realized you could put these two things together. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 Great for playing games, real low cost because you hook it to your TV set. 01:57.000 --> 02:01.000 As a result, they got a head start on a lot of the other PC computer manufacturers. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 A lot of software was produced, good customer base. 02:04.000 --> 02:07.000 This is a sufficient machine for a lot of people to use in education, in the home, and so forth. 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 And Apple said, well, why not serve a set of customer base and give them a new machine? 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 Well, we're going to take a look at that new machine today. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 It's the Apple 2C Plus, and we'll see how it has improved on its ancestors. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 We'll also take a look at GSOS, the new operating system for the Apple II GS, 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 and its new ability to work with a CD-ROM drive. 02:23.000 --> 02:28.000 Now, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were the architects of this early generation of Apple II computer. 02:28.000 --> 02:31.000 John Scully is the driving force behind Apple now, 02:31.000 --> 02:35.000 and we're going to start out this program by visiting John Scully in his office at Apple 02:35.000 --> 02:39.000 to find out about the company's real commitment to the future of the Apple II. 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 Since its introduction over 10 years ago, 02:43.000 --> 02:47.000 the Apple II has proven to be a sturdy and persistent computer 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 with a loyal following of devoted fans. 02:50.000 --> 02:54.000 There are now about 4.5 million of them scattered around the world. 02:54.000 --> 02:59.000 But company support for the Apple II line, at least in the eyes of its owners, 02:59.000 --> 03:03.000 hasn't always been evident, as Apple president John Scully admits. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Well, I think in many ways that Apple II users have felt abandoned by Apple 03:07.000 --> 03:13.000 because they haven't heard many messages from the top people in our organization 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 to give them encouragement that the Apple II was important. 03:16.000 --> 03:21.000 And to be perfectly honest, this was a very conscious direction on our part 03:21.000 --> 03:28.000 as we were trying to convince business users that Apple wasn't in the home computer business only, 03:28.000 --> 03:33.000 that we were also able to provide very powerful business workstations. 03:33.000 --> 03:37.000 Without the success of the Macintosh in business, we couldn't afford 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 the huge investment we have in research and development 03:40.000 --> 03:44.000 and the support of proprietary technologies for Macintosh and the Apple II. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 Today, the Apple II has become three machines, 03:47.000 --> 03:53.000 including the little-changed IIe, the colorful IIgs, and the portable IIc+. 03:53.000 --> 03:58.000 But increasingly, the Apple II series appears to be headed in a different direction 03:58.000 --> 04:03.000 from the company's most powerful and expensive computer, the Macintosh. 04:03.000 --> 04:08.000 The best way to really understand the two products is to look at the software bases that they have. 04:08.000 --> 04:16.000 The software base for the Apple II is largely educational software and enthusiast software, 04:16.000 --> 04:24.000 and it continues to have a tremendous amount of new software as well as many popular titles from the past. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 The Macintosh, on the other hand, from the start was a computer that was aimed at higher education, 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 colleges, universities, as well as business. 04:31.000 --> 04:37.000 Apple Computer has other reasons, beside owner loyalty, to keep the Apple II line moving forward. 04:37.000 --> 04:41.000 For one, it's a billion-dollar industry all by itself, 04:41.000 --> 04:46.000 and the machine has captured over 60% of the educational market. 04:46.000 --> 04:53.000 Moreover, the installed base is enough to keep users and suppliers busy for many more years. 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 There are a lot of businesses that adopted the Apple II a long time ago, 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 that already had made the investment in Apple IIs, don't want to give up that investment. 05:01.000 --> 05:07.000 They have their files on Apple II computers, and so the Apple IIgs has found its way into many small businesses. 05:07.000 --> 05:14.000 As with any other kind of computer product, the marketplace determines whether a computer will live or die, 05:14.000 --> 05:20.000 and John Scully believes that customers for the Apple II will be around for some time to come. 05:20.000 --> 05:26.000 We're going to do everything we can to make the Macintosh as powerful as we can, 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 but it doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who like a stick shift, 05:29.000 --> 05:35.000 who want to have the real feel of the chips, and that's the experience that you get with an Apple II. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 You're close to the technology. 05:37.000 --> 05:48.000 ♪♪♪ 05:48.000 --> 05:53.000 Joining us in the studio now is Laura Kurohara, product manager for the Apple IIc Plus, 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 and next to Laura is Bill Cleary, formerly with Apple, formerly with the Apple division of Activision, 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 and now out on your own with Bill Cleary Communications. Gary? 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 Laura, I'd say there's quite an improvement over the Apple that was in the briefcase. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 That Apple. 06:05.000 --> 06:10.000 What is the new features of the Plus? 06:10.000 --> 06:17.000 Okay, just to start off with, we used to have in the IIc a 5 1⁄4-inch disk drive, 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 and now we have a 3 1⁄2-inch disk drive. 06:19.000 --> 06:25.000 So what that offers is five times the storage capacity and three times faster than 5 1⁄4 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 accessing your programs. 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 We used to have a power supply that was external on the IIc. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 We all remember the power supply. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 Yes, brick on the leash. 06:34.000 --> 06:39.000 What we've done is internalized the power supply, and it resides right here inside the case. 06:39.000 --> 06:43.000 So we've done the obvious changes to the C, to the C Plus, 06:43.000 --> 06:50.000 so that they're obvious but they were important features that we needed to do to improve the C. 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 Just to be clear, that's not part of the new IIc. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 No, it's not. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 It's the old generation. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 It's the old generation, and it has gone away. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 How about speed improvements? Is it a faster processor now? 07:00.000 --> 07:06.000 Yes. What we have done is we have a custom accelerator chip that is in the C Plus, 07:06.000 --> 07:13.000 and what it does is help perform a 4 MHz operation function for the user. 07:13.000 --> 07:18.000 So instead of running at 1 MHz where the IIc originally ran at, 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 you are running at 4 MHz operational mode, and this is optional to the user. 07:22.000 --> 07:26.000 So you cold boot the machine, and you're coming up in 4 MHz, 07:26.000 --> 07:31.000 and then you can do a keystroke selection and go into 1 MHz operation. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 So those programs that are dependent upon timing can still run in the new? 07:34.000 --> 07:38.000 You've got a demo, I think, in which you can show us the difference in those two speeds, could you? 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Yes. What I've done is this is going to be operating in 1 MHz, 07:41.000 --> 07:46.000 so you get an idea of where we were at and where we're coming to. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 So what I did is this is Math Blaster Plus. 07:48.000 --> 07:53.000 It's a popular software application for education. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 It's a game on learning your math. 07:56.000 --> 08:00.000 So we'll go into here, and we'll be able to see across here. 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 If you take a look at this little guy running across here, and I turn the volume up, 08:05.000 --> 08:10.000 you're going to get an idea of what look and sound of 1 MHz look like. 08:10.000 --> 08:19.000 Now, if I go in and I reset the machine, I'm going to reset the program into 4 MHz. 08:19.000 --> 08:23.000 While we're waiting for it to reboot, then, you're mentioning the 3 1⁄2-inch floppies now. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 Are you concerned at all that, I mean, the whole issue with the Apple II, of course, 08:26.000 --> 08:30.000 is the gigantic amount of software out there, all of which is on 5 1⁄4. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Aren't you concerned now that by switching disk formats, 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 this sort of throws out that whole advantage to the user? 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 Well, we were real concerned about that during our development process. 08:38.000 --> 08:42.000 So what we did is we seeded over 200 of our software and hardware developers, 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 the majority of them being software developers. 08:46.000 --> 08:52.000 And what we wanted to assure is going from a transition of 5 1⁄4-inch media to 3 1⁄2. 08:52.000 --> 08:58.000 And what we did is, during this development process, encouraged developers to move to the 3 1⁄2 08:58.000 --> 09:05.000 and make it available in their separate kit units on the dealer's shelves. 09:05.000 --> 09:11.000 So on the day of introduction, we were real proud of the fact that we were able to announce 09:11.000 --> 09:17.000 over 500 software applications available on 3 1⁄2-inch media in that separate box. 09:17.000 --> 09:22.000 So the user could walk in and purchase that software application, walk home, 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 and you'll have this 3 1⁄2 there without having to send a coupon in. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 Okay. Can you show us 4 MHz now? 09:27.000 --> 09:35.000 Yes. Now we reboot it, and we'll go back into the game portion selection. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 And we're going to see this little guy running around again. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 Yeah, you'll be able to hear it and see it. 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Watch him run at 4 MHz. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 You're right. 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 Back into here and choose Level 1. 09:44.000 --> 09:49.000 And here it's obviously showing you a faster speed. That's three times the performance of the original. 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 Now, Bill, obviously, I'm not going to buy a new computer to have this little guy run faster. 09:52.000 --> 09:57.000 What are the advantages, really, to the 2C+, and the kinds of users who would use that, 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 to the greater speed, to the 3 1⁄2-inch floppy, and so on? 10:00.000 --> 10:05.000 I think there's a lot of, you know, the real excitement about Apple's Apple II line, I think, 10:05.000 --> 10:10.000 over the years has been the large number of third-party solutions out there. 10:10.000 --> 10:14.000 Products like AppleWorks, which provide, from Clarus, which provide incredible functionality 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 in terms of home productivity or even running a small business. 10:18.000 --> 10:23.000 There's just a large number. Everything from PrintShop, which is really an Apple II prototype 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 for desktop publishing, which actually impacted the high end of the business. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 The Apple II is just a phenomenal machine, and the real mystery or the real secret about it, 10:31.000 --> 10:37.000 I think, can be summed up in a phone conversation, just paraphrasing what happened a few years ago 10:37.000 --> 10:43.000 when I was working as a vice president of marketing at a software company here in Silicon Valley. 10:43.000 --> 10:47.000 And I was asked, why isn't the Amiga going to knock off this machine? 10:47.000 --> 10:50.000 And the answer was real simple. I said, I think the Amiga can knock off the Apple II 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 if it does the following things. 10:52.000 --> 10:57.000 If it can before, within the next two months, get 60% of the education market, 10:57.000 --> 11:01.000 if it can get 10,000 software programs out there, and if it can get, at the time, 11:01.000 --> 11:06.000 2 1⁄2 million loyal users to support it. And I think that's part of the magic of the Apple II. 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 And there's a lot of reasons why I think people continue to buy them. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Laura, you talked about, and we talked about the 3 1⁄2 inch floppy. 11:13.000 --> 11:17.000 You've got some more options now with the IIc Plus in terms of peripheral drives and so on, don't you? 11:17.000 --> 11:21.000 Yes, we did. What we added to the line with the original IIc, 11:21.000 --> 11:27.000 if you wanted 3 1⁄2 inch media compatibility, you use the Unidisc. 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 What we've added to the line is still the option of using the Unidisc, 11:31.000 --> 11:38.000 the Apple 3.5, which you can use on the Apple IIgs, and then the Apple 5.25. 11:38.000 --> 11:42.000 So now you have all three drives that are compatible for the product, 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 for the Apple IIc product in our line. 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 It's amazing how large that looks now, isn't it? 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 Yeah. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 That's a new size disk. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 Bill, what do you think about the positioning of this particular machine, the IIc Plus? 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 Is that going to be in the same traditional niche where the II has been? 11:55.000 --> 11:57.000 Well, you look at the evolution of machines. 11:57.000 --> 12:01.000 You've got the IIgs, which provides improved sound and graphics, 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 and the mouse interface that people are familiar with on the Macintosh computer. 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 I think the difference, I think the IIc makes a lot of sense for people, 12:09.000 --> 12:12.000 and I don't know from a positioning standpoint what this means, 12:12.000 --> 12:16.000 but for people whose kids may be in K-12 using an Apple IIe, 12:16.000 --> 12:21.000 which is the standard in schools, to go home and to buy for the home an Apple IIc, 12:21.000 --> 12:25.000 it makes a lot of sense. It's a logical choice at Christmas time. 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 What other products would you like to see coming out from Apple? 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 Personally, because I have a lot of Apple IIc software 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 that's been associated with the machine for eight years now, 12:32.000 --> 12:35.000 the Apple II family of products, not just the IIc. 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 I would say I'd like to see a machine that has, 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 where I could run all the high-end Macintosh stuff 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 and also could run all the Apple II stuff. 12:44.000 --> 12:46.000 It's probably an unmissable dream. 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 You want the Apple Master Machine. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 The Master Machine. 12:48.000 --> 12:54.000 It's about the size of the IIc Plus there with a flat panel screen 12:54.000 --> 12:57.000 on plane trips and whatnot, or if I wanted to run some old II stuff, 12:57.000 --> 13:00.000 I could still do that. I think it would be a fantastic product. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 I know Apple can't formally comment on this, but what would you think about that? 13:03.000 --> 13:08.000 A laptop Apple IIc, battery-powered, flat screen and so on, 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 would that be a sensible product? 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 I think from a cost standpoint, it would be very difficult for Apple to do a product like that. 13:15.000 --> 13:21.000 I see the GS as sort of an evolutionary step in terms of giving people the Macintosh interface, 13:21.000 --> 13:28.000 but I don't know whether or not from a cost standpoint you could do a machine that had a coprocessor 13:28.000 --> 13:32.000 that could accommodate both sides of the Apple family. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 But to me, it would be the ideal machine. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 Personally, I would love to buy one. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 Okay, Bill, Laura, thank you very much. 13:38.000 --> 13:42.000 Now, the Apple IIc Plus is not the only new II coming out of Apple these days. 13:42.000 --> 13:53.000 There's a new Macintosh II, the Mac IIx, and Wendy Woods takes a look at that new machine. 13:53.000 --> 13:59.000 The top-of-the-line Apple model, the Macintosh IIx, breaks new ground for the company. 13:59.000 --> 14:05.000 It's the first Apple Mac to use Motorola's powerful new 68030 microprocessor. 14:05.000 --> 14:14.000 It's got a standard memory of 4 megabytes, runs at 16 megahertz, is 10 to 30 percent faster than the Macintosh II, 14:14.000 --> 14:21.000 and most importantly, is the first Apple product to read and write to the IBM MS-DOS format. 14:21.000 --> 14:25.000 The message we get most clearly is people love our technology and they want to use it, 14:25.000 --> 14:30.000 and the less painful we can make it for them to transition out of an old technology, 14:30.000 --> 14:33.000 the easier it is for us to sell our technology. 14:33.000 --> 14:38.000 The Macintosh IIx drive is operated by Apple's file exchange software, 14:38.000 --> 14:48.000 which can read and write 3.5-inch MS-DOS or OS II diskettes, Macintosh diskettes, or Apple II ProDOS diskettes. 14:48.000 --> 14:56.000 In this demonstration, the IIx is reading and converting a Lotus 123 file made on an MS-DOS laptop 14:56.000 --> 15:01.000 to a file that can be used in Microsoft Excel on the Macintosh. 15:01.000 --> 15:06.000 Within a few years, this top of the line will become the middle of the line, 15:06.000 --> 15:09.000 and you can see the direction in which Apple is heading, 15:09.000 --> 15:17.000 a future of powerful color Macintoshes in which the data from many kinds of machines will be interchangeable. 15:17.000 --> 15:22.000 In Cupertino, California, for the Computer Chronicles, I'm Wendy Woods. 15:22.000 --> 15:34.000 [♪ music playing ♪ 15:34.000 --> 15:38.000 With us in the studio now is Anne Bachtold, product manager for the Apple IIgs, 15:38.000 --> 15:42.000 and next to Anne is Stu Roberson, director for marketing with Activision. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 Anne, over the years we've seen various versions of the Apple II. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 We just saw the C-plus and so forth. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 How do you differentiate the GS from the rest of the Apple line? 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 The GS is the top of the line for the Apple II product family, 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 and it sells into both consumer as well as education markets, 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 but it's really the most powerful platform we have. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 But it is still an Apple II. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 Oh, it's definitely an Apple II, and it runs all the Apple II software that's available. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 Can you show us what it looks like? 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 Sure, sure. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 The key thing, Anne, is really the operating system. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 It's not a new machine, it's a new operating system. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 The GS has been out for almost two years, 16:14.000 --> 16:18.000 and what I'm booting up right now is the new Apple IIgs system software, version 4.0, 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 which we recently introduced about a month ago at Apple Fest. 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 While it's booting up, have you identified the customer base? 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 Now, obviously you have over the past two years. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 Who buys the GS? 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 People who are interested in doing home productivity, families, 16:31.000 --> 16:37.000 and we have a very large education base in both K-12 areas as well as some college base, 16:37.000 --> 16:42.000 but it's primarily a K-12 machine and home productivity machine for families. 16:42.000 --> 16:48.000 So what we're booting into right now is basically the heart of the new system software, which is GSOS, 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 the new operating system. 16:50.000 --> 16:54.000 And some of the improvements that GSOS brings to the GS are, first of all, increased disk access, 16:54.000 --> 16:59.000 which, as you can see, definitely speeds the boot time of the system over our previous system software. 16:59.000 --> 17:03.000 And we've also introduced the concept of file system translation. 17:03.000 --> 17:10.000 Essentially what file system translation allows us to do is access data files from other operating systems. 17:10.000 --> 17:16.000 And what we've done is we've created new tools called FSTs or file system translators, which allow us to do that. 17:16.000 --> 17:23.000 And one of the things I'd like to demonstrate today is the file system translator for the High Sierra file system. 17:23.000 --> 17:27.000 As you can see, we've got a system right here that's configured with CD-ROM. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 And one of the things that we can do is through using the High Sierra FST, 17:31.000 --> 17:37.000 we can actually access applications, CD-ROM applications, such as Bookshelf, which is from Microsoft. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 And bring it right into Multiscribe. 17:39.000 --> 17:44.000 Multiscribe is a very popular GS word processing program. A lot of our users have it. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 So what I am right now, I'm in a Multiscribe file. 17:47.000 --> 17:53.000 And what I'm going to do is go into my disk area, 17:53.000 --> 18:01.000 and I'll go ahead and scan through some of my different volumes here until I bring up Bookshelf. 18:01.000 --> 18:04.000 And I'll go ahead and open a Bookshelf file. 18:04.000 --> 18:07.000 Let's just say I want to access Bartlett's quotations, for instance. 18:07.000 --> 18:12.000 And I've actually imported a data file from Bookshelf into my Multiscribe package. 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 And this really opens up the world of CD-ROM for our users, 18:15.000 --> 18:21.000 and especially our education customers are very interested in being able to access all the data that you can find on CD-ROM applications. 18:21.000 --> 18:25.000 What other kind of applications do you really see in the CD-ROM area? 18:25.000 --> 18:29.000 Well, CD-ROM is really a new industry for us, and it's really exploding. 18:29.000 --> 18:33.000 And we're supporting it now with the CD-ROM drive that we introduced in March. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 This is the first time that we've actually supported it on the Apple II line. 18:36.000 --> 18:43.000 So any large storage application, this one is a good example. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 I guess Encyclope is that one. 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Exactly. 18:45.000 --> 18:52.000 Could you run us back to the operating system and show us some of the new tools that are in the OS? 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 Yeah. In addition to the new operating system, 18:54.000 --> 19:01.000 we've created two new utilities that will really help our users better manage their hard files, 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 as well as configure their systems. 19:03.000 --> 19:08.000 As you probably know better than I, computing is becoming much more complex. 19:08.000 --> 19:13.000 So two of the new utilities that we have that I'm launching right now is the installer. 19:13.000 --> 19:18.000 The installer is a great program because it allows the user to really easily configure their systems. 19:18.000 --> 19:21.000 If you start adding hard drives and CD-ROMs and various other things, 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 it becomes somewhat complicated to make sure you have the right drivers. 19:24.000 --> 19:28.000 So on the left-hand side right here, I have some of the different drivers that you can add to your system, 19:28.000 --> 19:32.000 everything from MIDI to image writer support to CD-ROM support. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 I'm going to click on CD-ROM and install this driver. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 That way I know I'll definitely be able to run this program. 19:38.000 --> 19:43.000 What you can see right now is a little box that's giving you feedback on the process of adding the driver, 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 as well as what files are being added. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 So you don't have to worry about the different system file management. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 It's taking care of it for you. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 You've got one other new utility in there, don't you? 19:51.000 --> 19:57.000 Sure. Let me get out of this, and we'll go into the advanced disk utility. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 And that lets you do what? 19:59.000 --> 20:02.000 The advanced disk utility really helps you set up your hard drive 20:02.000 --> 20:06.000 and manage the information that's found there. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 Users, when they first start setting up their hard drive, 20:09.000 --> 20:12.000 they'll need to either initialize it or zero it out if it has other information. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 But another important element to this is partitioning, 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 and that's something we haven't supported prior to today, or actually in the last month. 20:20.000 --> 20:26.000 And what I'm showing you right now is a new partitioning utility. 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 What I have on the right side here are three different partitions 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 that we've set up on this particular hard drive, 20:32.000 --> 20:36.000 and I'll show you that we can change the partition size as well as... 20:36.000 --> 20:39.000 And why are you partitioning the disk? 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 Sure. One of the reasons you might partition a disk is to have different file formats. 20:42.000 --> 20:46.000 Maybe you want to mix pastel files with Proto files, things like that. 20:46.000 --> 20:52.000 So I can add and delete partitions and change the partition sizes. 20:52.000 --> 20:56.000 Okay, Ann, can I ask you to load up Stu's program while I talk to Stu? 20:56.000 --> 21:01.000 How important is the 2GS as a product line to software developers like Activision? 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 Well, Activision is really dedicated to the Apple IIGS 21:04.000 --> 21:08.000 and to that education and home marketplace that Ann had mentioned. 21:08.000 --> 21:13.000 To the large, growing developer base, I think you're seeing a lot more activity in the GS 21:13.000 --> 21:19.000 as some of the original Apple II developers have now started shifting their emphasis over to the new machine. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Do you have any idea what the size of that market is now? 21:21.000 --> 21:26.000 Right now there's over 300,000 2GSs installed, and that's growing. 21:26.000 --> 21:31.000 We anticipate, as what happened last year, that during the Christmas quarter, 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 they'll sell more Apple IIGSs than any other Apple CPU. 21:34.000 --> 21:39.000 Stu, you've got a paint program from Activision, which takes advantage of the graphics of the GS. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Describe it and show it to us. 21:41.000 --> 21:47.000 Yeah, this is Paintworks Gold, and Paintworks Gold is one of eight products that we make for the Apple IIGS. 21:47.000 --> 21:53.000 Paintworks Gold was derived from Paintworks Plus, which is a 512K version of the product for ease of use 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 and has made its way into many schools. 21:55.000 --> 22:01.000 What we're going to take a look at here are some of the advanced features that you can do with the 2GS using Paintworks Gold. 22:01.000 --> 22:04.000 Now, the image it's going to load is one that you may have seen. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 It's the Taj Mahal. 22:06.000 --> 22:10.000 And we're going to use two features, slippy colors, which is a unique feature, 22:10.000 --> 22:16.000 and then masking colors to make the Taj Mahal actually reflected in the pool below. 22:16.000 --> 22:22.000 What slippy colors actually allows you to do is define colors for your lasso tool to slip around. 22:22.000 --> 22:26.000 So we're going to define all the colors that are used in the sky. 22:26.000 --> 22:33.000 Then we're going to choose our lasso tool and select the Taj Mahal. 22:33.000 --> 22:38.000 You'll note, once I have released this, that just the Taj Mahal is selected. 22:38.000 --> 22:42.000 This allows you to pick out objects that you want from any painting. 22:42.000 --> 22:47.000 So we're going to go ahead and flip this Taj Mahal around to paste it down below. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 So we'll just flip it vertically. 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Now we have our Taj. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Now I'm going to move the screen around a bit. 22:52.000 --> 22:56.000 So first we'll cut this out, grab our handle. 22:56.000 --> 23:01.000 Now let's paste in the Taj Mahal. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 As we move it up, now we have a perfect reflection. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 Well, near perfect because you can see it's overlapping the grass. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Well, that's where masking colors comes in. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 You can actually mask these colors so that you can paint behind them or around them. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 Show us how you do that. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 I'll go ahead and mask some colors here. 23:18.000 --> 23:23.000 I'm going to mask every single color and then unmask the colors that may be in the water. 23:23.000 --> 23:29.000 Now you'll note as it has made its selection that instantly the Taj goes behind. 23:29.000 --> 23:35.000 In fact, you can actually paint behind the other objects that you see here on the screen. 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 The last thing that we're going to do here is just make this a nice sunset picture. 23:39.000 --> 23:42.000 And we'll do that by changing the colors. 23:42.000 --> 23:45.000 Now the sky was actually created using some gradient colors. 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 We'll go in and change those colors. 23:48.000 --> 23:52.000 We'll choose a color of red, and I want to adjust my entire palette to it. 23:52.000 --> 24:03.000 And I'll start picking out some oranges that might work well in a sunset sky. 24:03.000 --> 24:04.000 And there you have it. 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 That's an impressive product. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 Stu, thank you very much. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 It's a nice looking machine and operating system, and thank you. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 That's our look at the new Apple IIc Plus and the new Apple IIgs. 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 Hope we'll see you here again next week on the Computer Chronicles. 24:15.000 --> 24:26.000 ♪♪ 24:26.000 --> 24:30.000 In the random access file this week, an announcement from Toshiba that could replace 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 floppy and hard disk drives in the near future. 24:32.000 --> 24:36.000 Toshiba says it has developed a 4 megabit electronically erasable, 24:36.000 --> 24:39.000 programmable read-only memory chip. 24:39.000 --> 24:42.000 The chip provides a readout time of 1.6 microseconds. 24:42.000 --> 24:46.000 This is approximately 1,000 times faster than conventional floppy disk, 24:46.000 --> 24:50.000 and it takes the chip 1 microsecond to erase or store data. 24:50.000 --> 24:54.000 Toshiba says the chip eliminates the need for floppy or hard disk drives, 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 and Toshiba believes without the cumbersome disk drives, 24:57.000 --> 25:01.000 drastically smaller computer systems could be on the market within three years. 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 A new Macintosh laptop should be out by this summer. 25:04.000 --> 25:07.000 Still no specific launch date has been announced, price range, 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 or specifications for the system. 25:09.000 --> 25:13.000 But there have been leaks by a Dillon Reid analyst who says the new model should be 25:13.000 --> 25:16.000 introduced in June and cost about $6,000. 25:16.000 --> 25:21.000 And the word is the launch of the laptop has been delayed by problems with screen display. 25:21.000 --> 25:25.000 President Bush has okayed the foreign takeover of the U.S.'s last major producer 25:25.000 --> 25:28.000 of silicon wafers used to make computer chips. 25:28.000 --> 25:32.000 A West German firm has bought the California Monsanto electronic company. 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 The U.S. now produces none of the silicon wafers made in the world, 25:35.000 --> 25:40.000 while the Japanese provide 70% and European companies 26%. 25:40.000 --> 25:43.000 The sale of Monsanto, the world's sixth largest producer of the wafers, 25:43.000 --> 25:46.000 was announced last November. 25:46.000 --> 25:49.000 TV newsman in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been arrested for allegedly cracking 25:49.000 --> 25:52.000 his former employee's computer system. 25:52.000 --> 25:55.000 Michael Shapiro left his station for a competitor four months ago. 25:55.000 --> 25:59.000 In January, an investigation showed that files were missing from his former station's 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 newsroom computer. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 A probe by the phone company led police to Shapiro. 26:03.000 --> 26:06.000 Shapiro is now on a leave of absence from his current job. 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 He is facing 14 counts of computer-related crime. 26:09.000 --> 26:12.000 His bond is set at $14,000. 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 Making long-distance phone calls and charging them to your home 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 couldn't get much easier than this. 26:17.000 --> 26:20.000 U.S. Sprint is testing a telephone calling card that can only be used when the 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 cardholder's voiceprint is verified. 26:22.000 --> 26:27.000 The voice card, as it's being called, is being tested by employees and selected customers. 26:27.000 --> 26:28.000 Here's how it works. 26:28.000 --> 26:31.000 Dial the 800 number, then dial in an easy-to-remember number, like your birth date, 26:31.000 --> 26:34.000 then give a two-second verbal password. 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 Your voice is then compared to your voiceprint on Sprint's record. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 If it matches, the call goes through. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 If not, it's blocked. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Here's something students may be interested in. 26:43.000 --> 26:47.000 Microsoft and Simon & Schuster's Prentice Hall College Book Division will publish 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 a student version of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet. 26:50.000 --> 26:52.000 The release date is scheduled for April. 26:52.000 --> 26:56.000 The student edition will include all the features of the retail edition. 26:56.000 --> 26:59.000 Candelia, a vast kingdom, a peaceful, futuristic world, 26:59.000 --> 27:02.000 ruled by the Lockarm Dynasty for ages. 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 Its secrets are locked in the Sword of Power. 27:05.000 --> 27:10.000 Its creation is from the imagination of one 15-year-old, Jeffrey Campbell of Colorado. 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 Campbell just won first prize for his story. 27:12.000 --> 27:14.000 He was competing in a contest by Nintendo. 27:14.000 --> 27:18.000 The contest was to come up with the wildest plot for a new video game. 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 Campbell did and won. 27:20.000 --> 27:26.000 Campbell's game idea was just one of over 10,000 entries by youngsters ages 8 to 15. 27:26.000 --> 27:28.000 That's it for this week's Computer Chronicles. 27:28.000 --> 27:30.000 I'm Cynthia Steele. 27:30.000 --> 27:34.000 The Computer Chronicles is made possible in part by McGraw-Hill, 27:34.000 --> 27:36.000 publishers of Byte Magazine, 27:36.000 --> 27:40.000 and Bix, the Byte Information Exchange. 27:40.000 --> 27:44.000 In print and online, Byte and Bix serve computer professionals worldwide 27:44.000 --> 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